Last week, the Provost’s office announced which projects have been selected for Innovation & Interdisciplinary funding. Congratulations to the following teams.
Community Place-Based Interdisciplinary Program
Tammy Schwartz, Urban Teaching Cohort Program
Thomas Dutton, Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
Monica Ways, Office of Community Engagement and Service
Lee Harrington, Sociology & Gerontology
Walter Vanderbush, Latin American, Latino/a, & Caribbean Studies
Drawing from the lessons learned in the Urban Teaching Cohort three-year community-based curriculum model, the project aims to encourage other academic programs to develop urban community-based pedagogies and practices relevant to their disciplines. Its goals are to generate new courses and team-teaching across departments, create teaching teams composed of Miami faculty and community-based professionals, build multi-year curricular paths, and strengthen community partnerships. $115,000
Dream Keepers: A Grow-Your-Own Initiative
Denise Taliaferro-Baszile, Educational Leadership
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, English
The goal of this project is to implement a three-year college readiness program targeted at high-achieving multicultural students in urban school districts in the greater Cincinnati area. Miami faculty and undergraduate students will collaborate with local community educators to engage teams of high school students in after-school workshops and summer experiences aimed at enhancing cognitive strategies, self-management, and college knowledge. $150,000
Expanding the First-Year Research Experience (FYRE) Program
Joseph Johnson, Psychology and Office of Research for Undergraduates
The goal of this project is to revise and expand the existing First-Year Research Program to serve 300-400 students across a wider range of degree programs. The revised program features a multi-year curriculum and organizes students into research teams guided by peer mentors and graduate assistants who are supervised by faculty members. $100,000
Miami University Food Studies Institute
Peggy Shaffer, History and American Studies
Alfredo Huerta, Biology
Thomas Crist, Institute for Environmental Studies
Sheila Croucher, American Studies
Amelie Davis, Geography
Ann Fuehrer, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
John Keegan, Biology
Neringa Klumbyte, Anthropology
Anita Mannur, Asian & Asian American Studies, English, and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Beth Miller, Kinesiology & Health
Jason Palmeri, English
Nancy Parkinson, Kinesiology & Health
Charles Stevens, International Studies Program
The goals of this project are to:
- Coordinate and develop interdisciplinary curricula centered on food;
- Support interdisciplinary research and grant development focused on food-related issues;
- House an experiential learning center that features a multifunctional organic garden and sustainable composting facility.
$200,000
Global Health Research Innovation Center
Cameron Hay-Rollins, Anthropology
The goals of this project are to:
- Establish research partnerships with domestic and international organizations;
- Design interdisciplinary projects and write research grants to support them;
- Conduct the research, and publicize findings, thereby raising the profile of global health at Miami University.
$120,000
Miami University Center for Analytics & Data Science
John Bailer, Statistics
Allison Jones-Farmer, Information Systems & Analytics
Skip Benamati, Information Systems & Analytics
Robert Dahlstrom, Marketing
James Kiper, Computer Science & Software Engineering
Gillian Oakenfull, Marketing
The goals of this project are to:
- Develop interdisciplinary academic programs that directly address high demand skills;
- Partner with internal and external organizations to develop experiential learning opportunities;
- Foster interdisciplinary collaborative research;
- Provide professional development for Miami students, faculty, and staff in data science skills.
$175,000
Miami University Agile Initiative
Jerry Gannod, Computer Science & Software Engineering
Douglas Havelka, Information Systems & Analytics
Timothy Krehbiel, Management
Eric Luczaj, Computer & Information Technology
The goal of this project is to establish Miami as a leader in using Agile in higher education and helping other institutions to adopt Agile by creating workshops designed to expand Miami faculty’s knowledge of Agile and producing graduates who use Agile for learning, discovery, reflection, and innovation throughout their careers. In addition, the project proposers plan to develop and offer fee-based professional education in Agile as a means of sustaining the initiative over time. $120,000
NOTE: Award amounts listed represent total recommended funding for the full three-year project period. In practice, after first-year awards are made, funding in the second and third years will be contingent on meeting first-year outcomes and continuing progress.
Illustrations by Libby Levi for opensource.com, via Flickr. Used under Creative Commons license.
